Firsts Quotes
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I learned about HeLa cells in my first basic biology class, and I just became completely obsessed with them from that point on.
Rebecca Skloot -
Perhaps I could best describe my experience of doing mathematics in terms of entering a dark mansion. You go into the first room and it's dark, completely dark. You stumble around, bumping into the furniture. Gradually, you learn where each piece of furniture is. And finally, after six months or so, you find the light switch and turn it on. Suddenly, it's all illuminated and you can see exactly where you were. Then you enter the next dark room.
Andrew Wiles
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When I go home, the first thing I do is wash the dishes. It feels real and it feels like home and it's humbling, it's something you don't do when you're living in a hotel, everyone cleaning up after you.
V V Brown -
A firm, hearty handshake gives a good first impression, and you'll never be forgiven if you don't live up to it.
P. J. O'Rourke -
What came first the chicken or the dickhead?
Alexander David Turner Arctic Monkeys -
It was important to me to find a label that wouldn't back out after a first single. Everyone's so used to hearing me with Hootie, they're going to be skeptical.
Darius Rucker Hootie & the Blowfish -
When devils will the blackest sins put on They do suggest at first with heavenly shows
William Shakespeare -
Theater in Chicago will always be my first love.
William Petersen
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The culture of any country is gauged first by its progress in art.
Ignacy Jan Paderewski -
My name's Todd but I changed it in the first grade because there was another kid named Todd and I didn't understand that that was possible.
T. J. Miller -
So much time weeping and wailing and shaking our fists, creating enemies that really don't exist.
Don Henley The Eagles -
The first transactions of a nation, like those of an individual upon his first entrance into life make the deepest impression, and are to form the leading traits in its character.
George Washington -
There is force and vitality in a first sketch from life which the after-work rarely has. You want a picture to seize you as forcibly as if a man had seized you by the shoulder! It should impress you like reality!
William Morris Hunt -
My dad taught us that there's no greater distance than that between first and second place.
Janet Jackson
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Soloing was pretty easy for me because it was probably the first thing I've ever done.
Angus McKinnon Young AC/DC -
The first time I tried to sing along with my guitar, everybody in the studio booed. They all said it wouldn't work.
George Benson -
When we first began and I was 14, my influences were the stuff that was in my parent's record collection like Deep Purple and Led Zeppelin.
Daniel Johns Silverchair -
Those who place their affections at first on trifles for amusement, will find these trifles become at last their most serious concerns.
Oliver Goldsmith -
A girl's modesty is first noted by her external presentation, but if it's not followed by the confidence of internal modesty, she still forfeits the power of her virtue.
Dannah Gresh -
The groves were God's first temples.
William Cullen Bryant
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I remember my first test in F1. After five laps, I came back to the pits and tried to play it cool - 'Oh yeah, I'm fine, I'm on top of this' - but I was completely lost.
Sebastian Vettel -
A girl's father is the first man in her life, and probably the most influential.
David Jeremiah -
I think, to be honest, sort of emanated from the initial work of somebody else instead of SCLC. If you take Albany; I don't know whether you recall how Albany got started. There were two little guys who went up there first. One was Cordell Hull who was then in his teens - not Cordell Hull - Cordell Reagan, who came out of the Nashville movement, and Charles Sherrod, who came out of the Richmond, Virginia, movement.
Ella Baker -
When I first met my husband, I needed that helping hand to take the reins and look after me.
Christina Aguilera